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120. Aztec education
Education Bookcast
What's Unusual About the Aztecs?
The Aztecs also had a kind of muted literacy let's say not very much literacy but it's India for me that stands out the most as a place where is very much about an oral tradition which is non-literate so that's unusual in this low level of focus on literacy. There have been human sacrifice in you know kind of medieval sorry not medieval I mean in some places like China, Europe and Islamic world. But why aren't the Aztecs unusual they're not even in contact with any of these civilizations and yet they actually seem to be doing a bunch of things which are quote-unquote normal.
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